Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
Tom Peters
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Giving
Kind
Years
Olds
Think
Pops
Thinking
Advice
Audience
Year
Understand
More quotes by Tom Peters
Leaders do stuff that matters.
Tom Peters
Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.
Tom Peters
Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.
Tom Peters
The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
Tom Peters
Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'
Tom Peters
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
Tom Peters
One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call the other digital divide.
Tom Peters
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.
Tom Peters
Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.
Tom Peters
Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
Tom Peters
One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period
Tom Peters
Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.
Tom Peters
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
Tom Peters
For me, reading is reading.
Tom Peters
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
Tom Peters
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
Tom Peters
I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves.
Tom Peters
Only pissed-off people change the world.
Tom Peters
A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
Tom Peters
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
Tom Peters